Minister for
Constitution and Legal Affairs, Dr Harrison Mwakyembe, has urged members
of the Committee for Prevention of Genocide in the Great Lakes Regions
to enhance strategies which are likely to prevent genocide and human
rights violations in the region.
"It is evident
today that crime trends have shifted and new ways of committing crimes
and human rights violations have also emerged, hence the need for
improved strategies to prevent genocide and human rights violations," he
said.
Dr Mwakyembe was
speaking at the three days regional training seminar on deepening the
institutionalisation, networking and capacity building of national
committees for genocide and mass atrocity prevention in Dar es Salaam
The seminar was
attended by participant members states of Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo
DRC, South Sudan, Uganda and host Tanzania under the sponsorship of the
Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation based in United States.
The minister said
it was high time for the members of the committee to address any gaps
that provide room for continued impunity by considering policy, legal
and administrative measures that will be necessary to strengthen
prevention mechanism.
He said prevention
of the atrocities requires concerted efforts of each country based on
the given nature of peace and security challenges, faced by individual
countries, the region and the world as a whole. The minister said the
region still witnesses atrocities despite having regional, international
commitments, initiatives and national mechanisms for genocide and mass
atrocity prevention.
He said the world
has witnessed profound acts of atrocities in the past decade even in
areas that were least expected and the effects were felt far beyond
boarders of the affected countries.
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